Fans of Shijiazhuang Ever Bright celebrate the clubs first ever match in CSL

China announced its soccer reform and development plan,sets goal of hosting World Cup.

According to the plan, the Chinese Football Association will be a fully An independent legal, and The football management center, which is a governmental agency, will no longer exist

Regarding the C-League, based on the Currentlly CFA League Council and CSL management company, the New CSL Council and China League Council will be established, both will be separate legal entity, means the CFA will nolonger holds equity of the League, currenttly the CFA holds 36% of the stocks of the CSL company.

In regulations announced earlier, the League council had forbid club to relocate from their current province, and set up promotion/relegation between China League 2 and CAL, which is the 3rd level and the 4th level.

The Shares of football club will be open to Private shareholders and local government, currentlly it only opens to Government owned or private owned companies. encorages local governments invests football clubs with facilities and infrastructure, encorages clubs to use Neutral names instead of sponsor names.

The League will be expanded, in earlier plan announced by the CFA, The CSL will have 18 clubs in 2022, while China League 1 will expand to 20 clubs, China League 2 will expand to 24 clubs.

Strange to see Shanghai SIPG back on top after relegation 2 years ago. Oh, wait... they have Conca. But the same ol' 4 seems fine. I might be a battle between Guoan/Evergrande/SIPG because I don't see Luneng lasting out long.

weka wrote:Strange to see Shanghai SIPG back on top after relegation 2 years ago. Oh, wait... they have Conca. But the same ol' 4 seems fine. I might be a battle between Guoan/Evergrande/SIPG because I don't see Luneng lasting out long.

The bid for 2016-2020 CSL Broadcast right launch on September 25th. The bidders include CCTVSE, China Media Group(Ti'ao Power), SMG GreatTV, GDTV, CCTVSE is CCTV5, the “national team” of media. China Media Group purchased the broadcast rights of Team China. while GDTV and Great TV are the local TV media in Guangdong and Shanghai.

China Media Group(Ti'ao Power) won the bid at a price of 8 billion RMB (1,255.2 million USD), in term of average price per year, which is almost 20 times of the current price for 2015 — RMB 80 million.